Tidal has launched the premium tier of its subscription-based music streaming service, which costs twice the amount of a standard $10 account with the company. While the $20-per-month price tag for Tidal premium may seem steep, that subscription serves users lossless audio. The MP3 format reached Web stardom and widespread adoption because it used small files sizes to capture most of the sound mixed by artists in studios — most. However, to achieve files sizes that average about 1 MB per minute of audio, MP3s drop a good deal of quality.

The Navy is evaluating designs, costs and specifications for a new class of amphibious assault ships designed to replace the current fleet of cargo-carrying LSD 41/49 dock landing ships, service officials said.

While the cloud promises faster time to market and reduced costs, it also presents a new landscape for hackers to attack and achieve their goals — namely, to find and gain unauthorized access to data and information. Attackers follow the data they are after, and if that data is residing in the cloud, then they are going to start operating in the cloud as well. For many organizations, these recent events are a wake-up call to take a closer look at which cloud services are being used, by whom, and which actions are being performed within them.